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JANUARY 20, 2002
 Economy
 Governance
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 Banking & Finance
 Economic Revolutions
 Entrepreneurs
 Business Families
 Organisation
 The Consumer
 Media/Communication
 Society

 

Chronicling The March Of Ideas
What does the world's largest collection of information gatherers have to do with Business Today's 10th anniversary issue? Everything. The world's largest collection of information gatherers is, arguably, the team of independent experts—call them freelancers if you will—who work for a magazine called Whole Earth.
Letter from the Editor-in-chief
Exciting times demand exciting business reporting. BT is our response to that need.
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Letter from the Editor
The first year of the millennium brought with it political and economic turmoil of a magnitude not seen in the last 25 years.

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  PAST
The years of liberalisation haven't fully made up for decades of socialism.
FUTURE
Isolation may bring short-term gains but it makes India an eventual loser. more...
  PAST
Bureaucrats who show the system can be made to work to revitalise the machinery of state.
FUTURE
A leaner government is on the cards, but it can't leave our lives just yet. more...
       
   
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Battered by scam after scam, the markets yearn for a proactive regulator and sensible investors.
FUTURE
Minimalism, and the meeting of opposites, could be the theme of tomorrow's bourse. more...
  PAST
Increased tech savvy and the desire to test uncharted waters marked banking in the 90s.
FUTURE
No one will be a bank, and everyone will be one in the not unforseeable future. more...
 
 Cities
 
No Revival Yet
The CII-Ascon Survey of 110 manufacturing and 12 services sectors reconfirms what many were fearing: that an economic revival isn't around the corner yet. The culprit is the basic goods sector, which is given a 45 per cent weightage by the survey in the manufacturing sector..
Show Me The Money
It seems the Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha is going to have a tough time balancing the government's books this fiscal end. Estimates of gross tax collections for the period April-December 2001, point to a shortfall. Unless the kitty makes up in the last quarter, the fiscal situation will turn precarious.
More Net Specials
Quote-Unquote
By Assistant Editor
Seema Shukla

Plain Speak
By Special Correspondent
Suveen K. Sinha
   
  PAST
A poor nation dares to dream of economic stardom, thanks to a few visionaries.
FUTURE
Emerging technologies conjure up images of undreamt wealth co-existing with misery. more...
  PAST
The story of the entrepreneur is chiefly a tale of displacement and the ability to adapt.
FUTURE
To grit and the big idea, investors and accountants will add the value of the professional. more...
       
   
  PAST
Liberalisation has spelled doom for some family businesses.
But not all.

FUTURE
Management is for professionals, scion or not. For the others, there is golf. more...
  PAST
To be relevant, organisations must return more than what they take from the society.
FUTURE
The 21st century corporation's success or failure will hinge on one factor—ideas. more...
       
   
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Consumerism may have swept the land, but its nature remains uniquely Indian.
FUTURE
The boisterous consumer will turn into a more thoughtful, demanding citizen. more...
  PAST
For a country at this stage of development, India has a vibrant media industry.
FUTURE
Can there be a media form customised to every single
user? Yes.
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  PAST
Every Indian wants to clamber onto the bandwagon of change, but he's afraid of the ride.
FUTURE
Tomorrow's society may be radically different. Let's hope the differences aren't radical. more...
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Decaying Calcutta has gravitas, suave Singapore has dynamism. Let them learn from each other.
FUTURE
The best economy of tomorrow's creaking cities will be the care and culture of its people. more...
       

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